The Super Bowl is like a goose that lays golden eggs from which cash cows hatch. It makes obscene amounts of money. So, that could be why the DHS has stepped up its confiscation of sports-related domains in the run-up to Sunday American Football Super Bowl — nuking a total of 307 separate sites. More »
It’s about .co domain names! It has girls in it! Danica Patrick! Jillian Michaels! Bodypaint! And… it predictably teases you into going to GoDaddy’s website to “see more”. Oh yeah, and it predictably sucks. More »
A report from Deloitte Access Economics has found that companies registering .au domain names over the past year contributed just under $475 million to the Australian economy. Wow. More »
If you’re looking to enter the nascent world of online pornography, today is your day, stud — porn domains are on sale to the public, the BBC reports. More »
Apple has won its claim on seven iPhone-related domains that nefarious porn sites had gobbled up and pointed at, well, porn. Thing is, they sort of forgot to turn off the porn. More »
Apple’s bought the Applepico.com domain and, given the company’s history of purchasing domains prior to releasing new product, does this mean we’ll see an Apple-branded pico projector in the future? More details and alternative hypothesis are available at MacRumors.
ICANN’s signed its name on the dotted line for the proposal to create new domain suffixes in the style of their last decision, .xxx. As CNET reports, there are only 22 GTLDs in existence today (.org, .edu and so on), but with this decision we could expect to see specific endings for companies, categories or self-promoting individuals. More »
We knew there’d be trouble once ICANN approved the use of .XXX domain suffixes. India will block all URLs ending in .XXX, and plenty more are expected to follow suit. This is exactly why the pornstars didn’t want the domain to be approved! [TechSpot via TechRadar]
